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Jul. 16th, 2014
Busy pool morning
Jul. 16th, 2014 09:25 amThere were some different people at the pool this morning. I was doing my laps and grateful nobody was getting in my way. On may way back to the shallow end at one point, I noticed two youngish guys horsing around and bobbing up and down in the next lane. As I got closer I saw that they had a GoPro camera on a little tripod on the floor of the pool and were down there making funny faces into it. It was pretty funny to watch.
Then, towards the end of my swim, I noticed, several lanes over, that there was someone doing ballet moves - the kind you see in synchronized swimming. She had exquisitely beautiful form and was wonderful to watch. I wish I had had those guys' GoPro!
When I finished up, and got out of the pool, I saw that the dancer was already in the locker room. The only person in the shower when I got there was a woman who swims with the little masters group. We've been 'good morning/good swim?' buddies for a while now. I asked her if she had been doing the ballet moves and she said yes. She said that she had been with beginner synchronized swimming kids last weekend and she got the itch to try some of the moves she used to do back in the day. She has sure kept beautiful grace and style. I asked her to keep it up so I could watch it again and she allowed as how it's likely she would.
All and all it made for an interesting swim. Oh and one of the lifeguards mentioned in passing that the swim meet I signed up to volunteer for is likely to go til 10 pm. I was VERY glad to get my expectations. I would not have expected that at all and would have probably gotten quite antsy. Good to know ahead of time.
Today, FedEx will delivery the box and label for me to send my chromebook back for warranty repair. I think, when it comes, rather than waiting for FedEx to return on Thursday to pick it up, I'll just take it to OfficeMax or Kinkos myself.
And... that's the action on the docket for today! When I was a kid, there was a really popular tv show called The Life Of Riley. Riley was a very early Archie Bunker (and that reference is nearly too old to be useful itself!!)... He (Riley) worked at an airline factory (Boeing??! hahah I had never even heard of Seattle when I watched this show). He punched in, did what little he could, punched out and came home to sit in front of the TV and did nothing. My Mom, when she thought I was being too lazy would say 'what, you think you've got the Life of Riley now????'
Ha, Mom! Last laugh here 'I do have the Life of Riley now!!'
Then, towards the end of my swim, I noticed, several lanes over, that there was someone doing ballet moves - the kind you see in synchronized swimming. She had exquisitely beautiful form and was wonderful to watch. I wish I had had those guys' GoPro!
When I finished up, and got out of the pool, I saw that the dancer was already in the locker room. The only person in the shower when I got there was a woman who swims with the little masters group. We've been 'good morning/good swim?' buddies for a while now. I asked her if she had been doing the ballet moves and she said yes. She said that she had been with beginner synchronized swimming kids last weekend and she got the itch to try some of the moves she used to do back in the day. She has sure kept beautiful grace and style. I asked her to keep it up so I could watch it again and she allowed as how it's likely she would.
All and all it made for an interesting swim. Oh and one of the lifeguards mentioned in passing that the swim meet I signed up to volunteer for is likely to go til 10 pm. I was VERY glad to get my expectations. I would not have expected that at all and would have probably gotten quite antsy. Good to know ahead of time.
Today, FedEx will delivery the box and label for me to send my chromebook back for warranty repair. I think, when it comes, rather than waiting for FedEx to return on Thursday to pick it up, I'll just take it to OfficeMax or Kinkos myself.
And... that's the action on the docket for today! When I was a kid, there was a really popular tv show called The Life Of Riley. Riley was a very early Archie Bunker (and that reference is nearly too old to be useful itself!!)... He (Riley) worked at an airline factory (Boeing??! hahah I had never even heard of Seattle when I watched this show). He punched in, did what little he could, punched out and came home to sit in front of the TV and did nothing. My Mom, when she thought I was being too lazy would say 'what, you think you've got the Life of Riley now????'
Ha, Mom! Last laugh here 'I do have the Life of Riley now!!'
Editor, edit thyself
Jul. 16th, 2014 04:21 pmI do not like our new building manager. I don't like the way he runs the building and he, himself, rubs me the wrong way. So I'm overly critical and I know it but really...
Every time you have a package in the package bin he sends an email saying Dear Value Community Member... Now, I find the officious salutation disingenuous at best BUT the typo - Value rather than Valued - make me nuts. And all of his notes have a 'signature' that is about 25 lines long, 5 different fonts and 4 different colors with some highlighting - red over black font. It's nauseous.
Today he sent out an email that was laboriously long. The news was:
There will be a special event at Safeco Field on this coming Sunday. The traffic will be managed as usual. It's a softball game that starts at 1:30.
His email was:
This Sunday, July 20th, Safeco Field will be the site of the Richard
Sherman Foundation Celebrity Softball Game. This event will draw
approximately 20,000 to the ballpark. The typical traffic control plan
that would be used for a major league baseball game of this size will be
used for this event. This means that there will be SPD staffing along
Edgar Martinez Drive South, Royal Brougham Way, 1st Avenue, 4th Avenue
and at the entrances to Safeco Field Garage and CenturyLink Field
Garage. Traffic controls will ramp up with the first officers arriving
around 11:00am and full controls in place around 12:00 noon. The game
and awards ceremony should be complete approximately 5:30pm with final
cars exiting the area approximately 6-6:30pm.
Note, nowhere in all of his unnecessary words does he mention what time the damn thing starts.
I wrote out a long bitchy email to the board president suggesting they at least fix his damn templates and going on and on about the value of good communications.
I deleted it.
I wrote out a short and sweet email to Michael suggesting that next time he include the start time.
I deleted it.
I finally sent a very short email to the board president saying that if she or the board or Michael ever want a second eye for editing their communications that I'd be happy to serve.
I sent it.
Every time you have a package in the package bin he sends an email saying Dear Value Community Member... Now, I find the officious salutation disingenuous at best BUT the typo - Value rather than Valued - make me nuts. And all of his notes have a 'signature' that is about 25 lines long, 5 different fonts and 4 different colors with some highlighting - red over black font. It's nauseous.
Today he sent out an email that was laboriously long. The news was:
There will be a special event at Safeco Field on this coming Sunday. The traffic will be managed as usual. It's a softball game that starts at 1:30.
His email was:
This Sunday, July 20th, Safeco Field will be the site of the Richard
Sherman Foundation Celebrity Softball Game. This event will draw
approximately 20,000 to the ballpark. The typical traffic control plan
that would be used for a major league baseball game of this size will be
used for this event. This means that there will be SPD staffing along
Edgar Martinez Drive South, Royal Brougham Way, 1st Avenue, 4th Avenue
and at the entrances to Safeco Field Garage and CenturyLink Field
Garage. Traffic controls will ramp up with the first officers arriving
around 11:00am and full controls in place around 12:00 noon. The game
and awards ceremony should be complete approximately 5:30pm with final
cars exiting the area approximately 6-6:30pm.
Note, nowhere in all of his unnecessary words does he mention what time the damn thing starts.
I wrote out a long bitchy email to the board president suggesting they at least fix his damn templates and going on and on about the value of good communications.
I deleted it.
I wrote out a short and sweet email to Michael suggesting that next time he include the start time.
I deleted it.
I finally sent a very short email to the board president saying that if she or the board or Michael ever want a second eye for editing their communications that I'd be happy to serve.
I sent it.